ABOUT

Joanna is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans photography, installation, projection, and print. Her work delves into themes of architectural and urban spaces, exploring concepts of permanence, perspective, and potential. Rejecting a passive acceptance of the cityscape, Joanna views the urban environment as an artistic canvas brimming with hidden possibilities. Her work seeks to engage city users with their surroundings, offering new perspectives and encouraging reflection on the conditions of urban life. By prompting audiences to renegotiate their relationship with the city, her work invites them to uncover its messages, experience its dynamics, and envision alternative urban realities.

Her portfolio of projects draw inspiration from Michel de Certeau’s concept of resistant re-writing, creating opportunities for innovative and unconventional engagement with urban spaces. By challenging traditional frameworks of architecture and urban planning, her work reveals the creative potential of the city and highlights the role of representation and construction in shaping our experiences of urban environments.

Consistently throughout her practice is a manifestation of the fold, a process based response and experimentation with de Certeau’s principles of resistance, enabling her to interrogate the boundaries that govern urban spaces and propose alternative strategies for their construction, regulation, and negotiation. The fold represents a dynamic, fluid space—an evolving continuum where possibilities, processes, and creativity unfold endlessly across diverse architectural landscapes.

Joanna holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) with a major in Print from Sydney College of the Arts. She also obtains a Certificate in Arts Administration and Cultural Development from St. George School of Fine Arts and a Certificate II in Screen Printing from Ultimo TAFE. Additionally, she has completed professional training in Responsible Service of Alcohol (RSA), AV installation, Workplace Health and Safety (WHS), dementia support, and First Aid.

In addition to her artistic practice, Joanna has gained extensive Art Industry experience in various roles, including Gallery Assistant and Studio Technician at Gallery Lane Cove & Creative Studios, Museum and Gallery Assistant for Georges River Council, Visual Arts Assistant at Our Lady of Mercy College, and Children’s Visual Arts Teacher at Start Art School and Gallery Lane Cove. As an independent Community and Corporate Arts Facilitator, she has led numerous projects in collaboration with Macquarie Bank, Lane Cove and Willoughby City Councils, BioPak, Vivid, and Anglican Retirement Village.